yes I logged in as an administrator.
I only have one database.

thanks for the help.

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Did you check the error? Is the logged in user an administrator? Use mydatabase may be a problem if the login string already assigns a database.
>I have tried:
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>mcode1="use mydatabase;alter table customer ADD email_add VARCHAR(45);"
>store sqlexec(thisform.zConnHandle,mcode1,'resultcur') to result1
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>unfortunately it doesn't work.